Simone Weil

Filmmaker Seeks Answers In Simone Weil

Posted 03.30.2012

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By Jamie L. Manson National Catholic Reporter "What response does seeing human suffering demand of us?" This question, which opens the new docu...

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Do You Know Simone Weil?

George Mitrovich | Posted 10.13.2011

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George Mitrovich

We know much of Simone Weil's life and thought, as she left a remarkable collection of articles, essays, and letters. But her death at so young an age was one more manifestation of history's cruel cycle

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The Religion of Thinness

Aimee Liu | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aimee Liu

While writing my book Gaining several years ago, I kept tripping across evidence of a curiously cozy relationship between religion and eating disorde...

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